Hannibal Lecter wants his domain back
The actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, best known for playing serial killer Hannibal Lecter, seems to have filed a UDRP complaint over the domain name siranthonyhopkins.com.
Hopkins, via the trust that controls his name and likeness, won anthonyhopkins.com (currently parked) in a similar case last year.
He was knighted in 1993, and siranthonyhopkins.com was registered in 2003, so it’s not clear why the UDRP complaint took so long to file.
He’s the third celebrity in the last decade to win his “Sir” domain at UDRP, after Sir Paul McCartney and Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson.
The case got me wondering – if you’re a British celebrity and you want to protect your personal brand, when do you start to think about defensively registering your “Sir” or “Dame” domain?
What kind of ego would you need to have to preemptively registered such a domain, before you’ve even received your letter from the Queen?
I wonder if any such registrations exist.
And is there a need for them?
Popular octogenarian TV personality Sir Bruce Forsyth was knighted in June this year, and yet sirbruceforsyth.com has been registered (to somebody else) since 2008.
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Well, SirDavidBeckham.com is taken. And unless Becks moved to Bangkok, he’s not the owner.
Problem solved, in light of ICANN’s new sTLD program given the green light anyone of these knighted individuals could finance and back a ‘dot sir’ extension. 😉
Some great examples below (resource: wiki answers)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_celebrities_have_been_knighted
AlanSugar.sir
AlfredHitchcock.sir
AndrePrevin.sir
BarbaraCartland.sir
BenKingsley.sir
BillGates.sir
BobGeldof.sir
BobHope.sir
Bono.sir
ChristopherLee.sir
EdmundHillary.sir
EltonJohn.sir
GeorgeBush.sir
GeorgeMartin.sir
HelenMirren.sir
HenryCooper.sir
IanMcKellan.sir
JudiDench.sir
KiriTeKanawa.sir
MickJagger.sir
NickFaldo.sir
PaulMcCartney.sir
RalphRichardson.sir
RogerMoore.sir
RolfHarris.sir
RonaldReagan.sir
SalmanRushdie.sir
SeanConnery.sir
TerryPractchett.sir
TerryWogan.sir
🙂
@JayJay LOL, you got there before me with the dotSIR joke 😀